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Arm Ltd., the Cambridge-based chip designer owned by Japan's SoftBank, may gain a stronger rival to Intel in virtual radio access networks (RAN) through a startup called Kenyi, founded by a Qualcomm executive. Arm's core…
Samsung Electronics unveiled three next-generation memory technologies at the Future of Memory and Storage conference, including BV-NAND, a wafer-bonded flash architecture enabling more than 400 layers and boosting stora…
Anthropic is recruiting a custom-silicon team for Claude, with a Silicon Engineer listing updated August 4, 2026 and a chip-design reinforcement-learning role updated August 3, offering US base salaries of $320,000–$485,…
SK Hynix announced it will invest ₩54 trillion ($37.3 billion) to build new DRAM and NAND fabs in Yongin and Cheongju, citing Omdia's projection of 19 percent CAGR for DRAM and NAND demand from 2025 through 2030. The Yon…
Chiplet architectures are emerging as a practical path to scalable automotive compute, according to an analysis by Embedded.com. The article reports that automotive compute demand has outpaced process technology, with ne…
Anthropic confirmed it is hiring a custom silicon team to design chips for running its Claude models, joining OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Mistral in building proprietary AI hardware. OpenAI shipped its first custom inferen…
AMD acquired Taalas to etch model weights directly into silicon, achieving 17,000 tokens/sec inference speed—48x faster than Nvidia GPUs—and reducing hardware needs for trillion-parameter models to just 50 accelerators, …
AMD has agreed to acquire Canadian custom silicon startup Taalas for an undisclosed amount, integrating its technology into its AI accelerator roadmap and Instinct GPUs to target the growing inference market. Taalas rais…
Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is expected to ship in fall 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with the M6 chip built on TSMC's 2nm process and featuring a redesigned GPU with up to 12 cores, updated memory architecture …
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Canadian designer of chips that embed a trained AI model's weights into custom silicon, aiming to reduce the cost and time of enterprise AI inference. Analysts caution that the model-s…
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Canadian designer of chips that embed trained AI model weights into custom silicon for enterprise inference, aiming to cut costs and power use. Analysts warn the model-specific hardwar…
SK hynix announced on August 7, 2026, a 54 trillion won investment to build the Yongin Y2 and Cheongju M17 fabrication facilities, aiming to secure a mid-to-long-term production base for AI memory demand. The investment …
SK hynix announced on August 7, 2026, a mid-to-long-term investment of 54 trillion won to build the Yongin Y2 fab and Cheongju M17 fab, aiming to secure production capacity for AI memory demand. The phased investment wil…
SK hynix Inc. announced a total investment of approximately 54 trillion won to build new fabs in Yongin and Cheongju, with 35.2 trillion won allocated for the Yongin 'Y2' fab and 19.1 trillion won for the Cheongju 'M17' …
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max edged past Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 on Artificial Analysis's Agentic Index, though rankings fluctuated within minutes, highlighting tight clustering among frontier models. OpenAI removed text chat …
At FMS 2026, SK hynix presented its next-generation memory architecture for the AI era, unveiling the first HBF standard specifications with Sandisk and showcasing AI memory solutions including CXL, DRAM, HBM, NAND, and …
AMD has acquired Taalas, a company previously highlighted in Latent Space's custom ASIC thesis, signaling AMD's commitment to custom silicon for AI inference. The acquisition was announced amid ongoing debates about the …
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire Taalas Inc., a Toronto startup that hardwires AI models into silicon, in a deal that pushes the chipmaker deeper into AI inference. Taalas's first test chip, HC1, built on Ta…
AMD announced it will acquire Taalas, a startup making model-specific AI inference chips that burn model weights directly into CMOS, claiming up to 17,000 tokens per second per user on its HC1 demonstrator running Llama …
Apple Inc. could dominate the small and medium enterprise (SME) AI agent market with its Mac Studio hardware, but it is prioritizing iPhone production due to higher profit margins, leaving the gap to be filled by NVIDIA …